Reading Journal 11/17-11/21

Title / author / date: The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 11/17/08

 

Pages read: 11

 

Summary: The story is about a man and his son that are on the road. They see things and experience difficulties along the way. His son asks him a lot of questions and he doubts the existence of god.

 

 

My Questions:

 

1. Does god really exist?

 

2. If god does exist, should he always help those in need even if they dont beleive in him?

 

 

My Response: I know how the character feels. i have been in the street before with my mom and i would ask her a lot of questions. My innocence made her feel hopeful. I was the only thing that kept her going. I know what its like to see things you wish you didnt have to see and have to remember it forever.

 

Quote (page # ):  Page 10, They are walking throught the city and everything is burnt and full of ash. The boy and his father come acorss a corpse in the doorway of a house. ” You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.” the dad told his son.

Title / author / date: The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 11/18/08

 

Pages read: 7

 

Summary: There is some sort of monster or ghostly figure that the DR culture, believe in called the Fuku. If you speak bad of it, it will come and get you.

 

 

My Questions:

 

1.  Is there such thing as a Fuku?

 

2.  Can having a strong belief in something from your culture make you have hallucinations?

 

 

My Response: I have strong beliefs about things in my culture but I don’t let it get out of hand to the point where I take drastic measures. I take them in mind and look at them as myths and stories that our grandparents tell us for a bed time story.

 

Quote (page # ): “Everybody in Santo Domingo has a fuku story knocking around in their family.”

 

 

 

 

 

Title / author / date: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. 11/20/08

 

Pages read: 16

 

Summary: Bella is pregnant with Edward’s baby. The fetus is getting stronger and stronger. Bella drinks human blood to feed the baby. She starts to heal a little better but then the baby starts attacking again; breaking her ribs. Everyone is worried she might not make it.

 

 

My Questions:

 

1. Is it wrong to not want to kill your baby when its killing you?

 

2. Was it a mistake for Bella & Edward to be intimate when he could kill  her easily?

 

 

My Response: I dont think that she is doing anything wrong. She is an adult now and has the power to make her own decisions. Whether the outcome be painful, its her life. If she wants to be with edward and carry his vampire baby then so be it.

 

Quote (page # ):  ” Emergency Vampirization” – Bella (Page 191)

Title / author / date: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer 11/21/08

 

Pages read: 33

 

Summary: Edward can hear the baby’s thoughts. It loves Bella and doesnt mean her any harm. The placenta detached and the baby was struggling to get out. Edward cut bella open and tore through the vampire skin holding the fetus. Then Edward had to save her by injecting his venom into her heart. Bella was burning inside. Finally the pain is gone, she is now a newborn vampire and her daughter, renesmee was safley born.

 

 

My Questions:

 

1. Should Renesmee be destroyed?

 

2. Should Bella have died instead been converted into a vampire?

 

 

My Response: I dont think that renesmee should be destroyed because she loves bella and she didnt mean any harm. She is an innocent baby that didnt chose to be powerful and harming.

 

Quote (page # ): “He loves you,” Edward whispered, sounding dazed. “He absolutley adores you.” Page 327